试题题干
The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences.
Today’s heroes — some of them, anyway — tell us they enjoy their ______.“ And I ______ to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never ______ of us billion-dollar babies.” The ______ “culture hero” who ______ that is Alice Cooper.
If I said that being black is a greater ______ than being a woman, probably no one would ______ me. Why? Because “we all know” there is ______ against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still ______ nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as ______ .
There is, however, another ______ possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a ______ of happiness than is the exercise of ______ . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no ______ in most, something is built up which remains as a ______ when the work is completed.
My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the ______ year at Whittier College, was ______ . It was to me less of a ______ ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had ______ then, as now, to make Watts my ______ .
Well, it’s a good life and a good ______ , all said and ______ , if you don’t ______ , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t ______ from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a ______ on his face, he began to wind in the reel.
A. handicap B. element C. weaken D. means E. heard
F. question G. freshman H. home I. strikes J. done
K. source L. different M. conceived N. particular O. grin
P skill Q. laughed R. prejudice S. monument T. sings
U. rewards V. departure W. intended X. world Y. bizarre